There's the rub. The first level VM cannot use a VTAPE. It would be handy if it could use one like CMS, TPF, z/VM, z/OS, et. al., running in a virtual machine can. After all, the drive has to be attached to a user, so it doesn't seem a great leap to use a device created for the virtual machine by a define command. :)
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Simulated tape drive??? On Friday, 05/12/2006 at 12:46 MST, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. Even the relatively inexpensive but very good product VTAPE from VSSI is > not usable for SPXTAPE. I presume that the system doesn't like the virtual tape > drive that is necessary for mounting the virtual tape. SPXTAPE requires an RDEV. A 2nd level SPXTAPE could use a 1st level VTAPE. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
